The Light of His Revelations - IV

[continued from The Light of His Revelations - III]


Many were the faiths in composite world
of Western Asia, Northern America, and Europe,


And many were the fragments of ancient wisdom,
Saved, Transformed, Renewed, or Mingled;


And many new streams of wisdom were poured through the crucibles
Of noble minds - prophets, poets, and preachers,
Philosophers and thinking men of action;


And many were the conflicts and many
The noble attempts reaching out towards Unity,


And were the subtle influences
interchanged with other worlds


Of further and Eastern Asia -
Aye, and perchance with the scattered Isles


Of the Pacific and the world between
The Atlantic and the Pacific.

All four parts of this post are taken from The Holy Quran - Text Translation and Commentary by Abdullah Yusuf Ali